Sweatband



Set 3Q 13 B. J. DIRUEDING SWEATBAND Filed oct. 22.71954 l TNESSES:

INVENTOR mw/A120 DQUED/Na ATToEY STATEy Patented Sept. 3, 1935 `llernhard J.,Druengplhiladelphia, Pa.` ApplicationlOc-tcber 2,2; 1934, vSerialA No. 749,408 2 claims. (ci. 2-181) This invention relates to hats, and-has foran object to provide thesweatband of a hat of new and improved type.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hat with a sweatband of substantially the usual material and type, but with an'added absorbing and cushioning unit applied thereto, said unit eX- tending beyond the edge of the sweatband proper, and offering means for `sewing the sweatband to the hat at that location, the sweatband proper remaining unsewed between the pad and the hat crown. l

A further object of the invention is to provide a pad occupying a position at the anterior of the hat, for engagement with the forehead of the wearer for comfort, and composed ,of material for both cushioning and absorbing perspiration, also serving to secure the sweatband within the hat, which band remains free from stitching or other attachment, at thelocation of the pad, adding to the cushioning effect of the pad.

The invention, therefore, comprises in combination with a hat of the usual crown and brim construction, of a sweatband of the usual and ordinary material having applied thereto at the anterior position of, a hat a pad which will be on the interior of said band in proper'position for engagement with the forehead of the wearer, said sweatband being stitched to the junction of the crown and brim in the usual manner throughe out its entire length, except that part which is l covered by the pad and at that location allowed to remain free of stitching, the connection being provided by the stitching of the edge of the pad to the junction lof the crown and brim, said edge eX- tending below the edge of the sweatband for that purpose.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of the invention and the views therein are as follows:

\ Figure l is a view in elevation of a fragment of a sweatband with the pad attached, Figure 2 is a section from the anterior to the posterior through a hat, and through the sweatband and pad,

instance, one with-a crown VIll and brim -IIpwhile it isV to be understood that the invention isin no way limited to the particular type shownrwhich is` merely for illustration.` 1

A sweatband I2 of the usual material is applied. Ordinarily, thissweatband is of leather, but the present invention is in no way limited to that material and will include sweatbands of any and all materials.

Upon that part of the sweatb-and which will engage the forehead of the wearer, that is to say, the anterior part of the hat, a pad .I3 is provided. At Figure 1 especially, this pad is shown as having a shape as there shown, but it is to be understood that it is merely illustrative, and that the shape may be varied as may be found desirable. This pad may also be of a great variety of material, but is preferably of some material of soft nature having a smoothsurface, such for instance, as suede or chamois, among the leathers, or felt or similar materials among the fabrics. Such materials are, however, mentioned merely by way of illustration, without limitation.

This pad is secured to the sweatband in any approved manner. As indicated in the drawing, it is stitched as at I4, but this is merely a convenient, and at the present considered a preferred, way of attaching, but` is not a limitation upon the attaching of the pad in 4any other mann ner, or by any other means.

Normally, the lower edge of the band, as it is applied to the hat, is curved and is stitched to the hat at the junction of the brim and crown, as indicated at I5. It is obvious, of course, that any other approved type of fastening or securing may be employed.

l The pad I3 has along its lower edge a curvature I6 of shorter radius than the curvature of the band itself, so that at its middle it extends a considerable distance below the edge of the band, as shown more particularly and understandably, at I1 at Figure 4. From this position of greatest eXtensio-n it tapers to its opposite ends where the ends substantially coincide with the edge of the sweatband itself. l

When the band is stitched into the hat by the stitches i5, the stitches are through the edge of the sweatband throughout all that area, excepting that covered by the pad i3, and at this pointthe stitching runs ofi from the'edge of the sweatband, as shown at Figures 1 and 3, and the stitching unites only the pad I3 to the junction of thebrim and crown, the edge of the band being raised above such stitching to the position shown more particularly at I 8 in Figure 3.

By reason of the raising of the sweatband at this location, a curvature is given to the band which, operating at the rear of the pad, adds a cushioning eiect to the pad, providing a resiliency not resident in such material as the pad is composed of. The hat as constructed presents to the wearer an area contacting with the forehead of far greater comfort, by reason of its yielding, both of the pad proper and the resiliency of the unattached part of the sweatband, than is found where the sweatband is attached throughout its entire lower edge, even with a pad of similar nature applied in the same position. In other words, the attaching of the band at that position by the stitching through the edge of the pad, the edge of the band proper remaining unattached, provides for a yielding, resiliency and cushioning effect not otherwise provided.

Of course, the sweatband described may be modied and changed in various ways without departing from the invention herein set forth and hereinafter claimed.

I claim:-

1. The combination with a hat, of a sweatband encircling the interior of the hat and having an edge attached thereto throughout the larger part of its length, and a pad applied to and within the concavity of the sweatband and extending below the edge, said extended edge being attached to the hat throughout its length with the underlying part of the sweatband unattached.

2. The combination with a hat comprising a crown and brim, of a sweatband encircling the interior of the crown, stitches connecting the lower edge of the sweatband to the hat at the junction of the crown and brim, said stitching extending throughout the larger portion of the band but providing an unstitched area at the anterior of the hat, and a pad secured to the interior .of the sweatband and having its lower edge extending below the edge of the sweatband, said lower extended edge being stitched to the junction as a continuation of the stitching o1 the lower edge of the sweatband.

A BERNHARD J. DRUEDING. 

